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I ended up winning a 120 (4x2x2) gallon tank with two Kessil a350w tuna blues led lights, approximately 14" off the water line. I have never owned or used these light sources before and I am looking for suggestions on what I should set the two dials to. Before this I had the Radion xr30w on my old 180, which was dead simple and very well documented. My plan on stocking is a mixed reef, lps/sps, and an anemone.

I just want to say how helpful, responsive and customer focused the guys at AWI are. They emailed me to follow up on my recent order and took the time to explain what was needed. Thanks guys for making my re-entry to reefing even more enjoyable.

I hope you have very good sump water level control. I was running a EV-240 for many years with a mag 18. It was a PITA to keep it working correctly. I always had a ATO on my sump but constantly had to fiddle with it to get it to work properly. At one point i emailed aqua-c to get advice on how to properly maintain and adjust it. The customer service at Aqua-c is great, just didnt love the skimmer.

ice2cool why are you running t12? why not supplement with the UV leds? "you forgot to add with Halides.... " have them now, want to try something else.

Are you using all Royal blues or a mix of Royal and Blue? Thanks! Colin

Thanks for the input Rob. Any suggestion on the mix of Cool White and Warm/Neutral White? What about a general mix of blue to white leds? I am looking for a 12-15K look. Thanks! Colin

I have decided to move to LEDs for my system and I am looking for some advise on the choice of colors and number of LEDs. After reading the "discussions" on LEDs on reefcentral have come to the following conclusion, you need variety and you need to be able to swap out leds easily. My design is a little different due to the layout of the tanks hood. I have a center brace on the hood that stops me from using 3 equal sized fixtures. My design uses 108 LEDs 96 "normal" and 12 UV LEDs. The design uses two 6"x20" and two 6"x9" heat sinks. I have included the layout and number of leds below. Please provide me with feed back!

great question, never thought it about it but tagging along.

Hey Jason I can help you out. I am about 2.5 miles from you. I will shoot you a PM with my number. Colin

+1to credit cards. Metro cards work great!

If they turn on for a sec and then off, that means there is a bad connection. My guess is the two that don't light up are connected to each other. If not then you really need to make sure you followed the wiring diagram correctly.

Used google's preview

That is an excellent question. I feed all three to my tank and never thought about it before. With google's help I found this reef central post http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=what%20is%20the%20difference%20between%20different%20colored%20seaweed&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEUQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reefcentral.com%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D9145994&ei=qCzrTtaCGMnm0QGpuNC7CQ&usg=AFQjCNE7cRCS7E1Qn9cVM_tu0MaBM1CHeA, sorry about the long link, rc is down at this time. Turns out each seaweed has different nuturional values...who would have thought!

Funny, I found that exact same site. I have been looking into culturing my own copepods for my mandarin. The price of copepods in a bottle is crazy! After my tank crashed I have been attempting to restock my tank. My wife got me a mandarin for my birthday and now I need to make sure he is well feed. The first thing I started looking for was a way to make sure i could feed the copepods. I went ahead and have setup a, like melev's http://www.melevsreef.com/phytoplankton.html , for phytoplankton, so far so good. I just set up the 10 gal for the copepods, with the divider, and need to purchase some copepods for starting the culture. From everything I have read so far I am going to go for a mixture of copepods species for the best results.